List of Figures

 

Chapter 1. Welcome to Linux

Figure 1.1. Raw data on storage devices can be visually represented by the OS as organized directory hierarchies.

Figure 1.2. Common top-level directories as defined by the UNIX FHS

Figure 1.3. The first screen of Info’s main menu. Info links may appear different on your system depending on what software you’ve installed.

Chapter 2. Linux virtualization: Building a Linux working environment

Figure 2.1. VM clients of a hardware host with connectivity to each other and to a larger network through an external router

Figure 2.2. A typical cloud computing workload centered around AWS’s Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) VM instances on Amazon Web Services

Figure 2.3. A type 2 hypervisor architecture showing full operating systems installed on each guest with some special administration duties delegated to Guest1

Figure 2.4. LXC architecture showing access between the LXC environment and both the Linux kernel and the hardware layer beneath it

Figure 2.5. The relationships among master software repositories, mirror download servers, and Linux running on an end user machine

Figure 2.6. The download page for Skype for Linux. Note the separate links for the Debian (APT) and RPM (Yum) package managers.

Figure 2.7. The Create Virtual Machine dialog: VirtualBox will try to approximate your OS and OS version to offer intelligent default choices later.